Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-05
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persons 10 toWh.
-R. NJ. May has run down TO Knox
Vile for a day or two.
-Rumor has 1t that there is another
wedding not veryfar of.
w. s. Dickinson, mayor of johnson
City, was In town Monday.
We are informed that Mrs. s. B. Cum
ningham is slowly recovering.
The Queen Of May did not material
lie in this neighborhood this year.
Mrs. Jas. A. West, of Conkling, spent
Monday in town, visiting lady friends.
Charlie Seaton dropped in on home
folks Sunday evening for a little visit.
Recorder d. P. O'Brien has gone to
Knoxville on business connected with his
office. M
j. J. Hunt has put his handsome So
da fountain In good order and is already
having a big lun.
One hundred and twenty five days of
1887 will have passed away when the
clock strikes twelve tonight.
Col. T. H. Reeves is attending the
East Tennessee Sunday School Conven.
tion at Maryville, as a delegate.
commencement exercises will be held
at Milligan. college on the 10th. We &C.
knowledge an invitation to be present.
Twin daughters were born TO Mr..
and Mrs. j. /. Hawkins Saturday morn
ing last. One Of the two has since died.
Mrs. F. W. Earnest returned Saturday
from Abingdon, Va, where she had been
called during the sickness of her daugh-
ter, Miss Carrie.
The second quarterly meeting Of the
NJ. E. Church, South, for the Jonesboro
station will be held at this place on the
18th and 10Th instants.
The Ministerial Association of the
M. E. Church meets to-day at the South
ern M. E. church. The public are cor
daily invited to attend.
Miss Nettie Miller, of this place, has
accepted a position as attendant In the
East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane
at Knoxville, and goes, in o few days to
take up her duties there.
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Several of our exchanges are warn
ing their readers against q couple Of
fakirs who are selling q powder to pre-.
vent lamps from exploding. The "pow-
der is nothing more than common sal
colored.
The will of Col. G. w. Telford. de-
ceased, Of this county, was offered In
the county court for probate, or Tuesday
last. L. II. West and F. W. Earnest,
were appointed executors.
During the severe thunder storm.
which passed over this place Thursday
afternoon last, a gum tree In the yard at
the residence Of Mrs. James Brown, was
badly splintered by lightning.
The jump from almost winter wealth.
er into midsummer heat, that we have
had this week, is pretty rough OF the
average citizen. Ninety two In the shade
is a rather tall record for this time Of
year.
IL was never exactly buried alive"
said an old clerk, ~recounting his expert.
ence, "but | once worked in a store that
did not advertise" When / came oui
my hair was almost as white as you now
see it. Solitary confinement did II.
The railroad company has put up q
new Hudson" signal on the depot. This
enables the agent to signal trains from his
office, and is q most convenient arrange
mcnt. These signals have been In ust
for some time at other stations on tht
road and have given good satisfaction.
Some Of our exchanges are warning
their readers against o new dodge. Sharp
ers are diddling the farmers by solicit
ing them to place their signatures to
pledge not to destroy any song birds
These signatures are subsequently added
to promissory notes, which by SOM
means get into the bank, leaving tn
farmer to pay a neat little sum.
-"Can you tell me what kind O
weather we may expect next month 2
wrote a man to the editor Of his count,
paper. The editor replied: 1T is m,
belief that the weather next month will
be very much like your subscription
BILL" The man wondered for an hou
what the editor was driving at, when h
happened to think Of unsettled" H
sent a postal note.
The experience Of the last few year
has shown that the only way to success
fully meet the strong competition t
which farmers are exposed, is by increas
ing the pr~oductiveness Of their land
The time has passed when even with i'm
proved machinery, we can run Owe
large areas Of poor land, relying on tn
~cheapness OF cultivation to Offset th
smallness of the product.
Rev. A. II. Gillet. d. D., gener'
agent of the Sunday School Union Of th
M. E. Church, and superintendent Of tn
Florida C~hautauqua Assembly, will d.
liver his lecture, on Glimpses Of Pale
tine and Egypt, at NJ. Z. Church, Soutl
Friday night, May g.. The lecture is gu
en- by DIR. Gillet simply for the pleasuI
and profit Of the people In connectio
with Sunday School Institutes which !
Is shielding. The entire proceeds Of Il
entertainment, after the expenses are pal,
WILDE devoted to missionary work. d